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____ (2011)
Per Curiam
No. 09940
PER CURIAM.
The Court of Appeals in this case held that the require
ments of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification
Act (SORNA), 42 U. S. C. 16901 et seq., violate the Ex
Post Facto Clause of the Constitution, Art. I, 9, cl. 3,
when applied to juveniles adjudicated as delinquent before
SORNAs enactment. We conclude that the Court of Ap
peals had no authority to enter that judgment because it
had no live controversy before it.
I
Respondent Juvenile Male was 13 years old when he
began sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy on the Fort
Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. The abuse
continued for approximately two years, until respondent
was 15 and his victim 12. In 2005, respondent was
charged in the District of Montana with delinquency
under the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act, 18 U. S. C.
5031 et seq. Respondent pleaded true to charges that
he knowingly engaged in sexual acts with a child under
12, which would have been a federal crime had respondent
been an adult. See 2241(c), 1153(a). The court sen
tenced respondent to two years of juvenile detention,
followed by juvenile supervision until his 21st birthday.
Respondent was to spend the first six months of his post
confinement supervision in a prerelease center. See
United States v. Juvenile Male, 560 U. S. ___, ___ (2010)
(per curiam) (slip op., at 1).
In 2006, while respondent remained in juvenile deten
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